* My favorites lists are not numbered, but rather sorted in tiers of preference, for lack of a better term, each of which are only tentatively ranked. As an example, you can be certain I find each album in the top tier exceptional in one or more ways. Which one is at the top and which one is listed below in is of lesser importance.
Albums:
- Gard Nilssen Supersonic Orchestra: If You Listen Carefully the Music Is Yours (ODIN)
- Aly Keita, Jan Galega Brönnimann, Lucas Niggli: Kalan Teban (Intakt)
- Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You? (International Anthem)
- I.P.A.: Bashing Mushrooms (Cuneiform)
- Eric Revis: Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic Records)
- Skurkar: Skjulte Motiver (Øra Fonogram)
- Run the Jewels: RTJ4 (BMG)
- Matthew Shipp: The Piano Equation (Tao Forms)
- Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Dimensional Stardust (International Anthem)
- Andreas Røysum Ensemble: Andreas Røysum Ensemble (Motvind)
- Anna Högberg Attack: Lena (Omlott)
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Molecular (Intakt)
- Wendy Eiesenberg: Auto (Ba Da Bing!)
- Torbjörn Zetterberg & Den Stora Frågan: Are You Happy? (Moserobie Recordings)
- Camila Nebbia: Aura (ears&eyes Records)
- Shabaka and the Ancestors: We Are Sent Here By History (Impulse!)
- Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud (Merge)
- Thiago Nassif: Mente (Gearbox Records)
- Okkyung Lee: Yeo-Neun (Shelter Press)
- Superposition: Superposition (We Jazz Records)
- Lisa Mezzacappa Six: Cosmicomics (Queen Bee Records)
- Sigurd Hole: Lys/Mørke (Elvesang)
- Otis Sandsjö: Y-OTIS 2 (We Jazz)
- Sault: (Untitled) Rise (Forever Living)
- Luke Stewart: Luke Stewart Exposure Quartet (Astral Spirits)
- Moskus: Live på Victoria (Earthly Habits)
- Terje Rypdal: Conspiracy (ECM)
- Daniel Romano's Outfit: Daniel Romano's Outfit Do (What Could Have Been) "Infidels" by Bob Dyaln & The Plugz (self-released)
- Rudresh Mahanthappa: Hero Trio (Whirlwind Records)
- Barrage: The Was and Is to Come (Øra Fonogram)
- Orientation of We: Emergence (Off!)
- Roots Magic: Take Root Among the Stars (Clean Feed)
- Wako: Wako (Øra Fonogram)
- Ingrid Laubrock: Twice Dreamt, Dreamt Twice (Intakt)
- Rudresh Mahanthappa: Hero Trio (Whirlwind Records)
- Hegge: Feeling (Particular Recordings)
- Vilde&Inga: How Forests Think (SOFA)
- Bob Mould: Blue Hearts (Merge Records)
- A Love Supreme Electric - Golia, Hanrahan, Kaiser, Peet, Watt: A Love Supreme and Meditations (Cuneiform)
- Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic)
- Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver: Welcome Adventure vol. 1 (577 Records)
- Brandon Seabrook with Cooper-Moore and Gerald Cleaver: Exultations (Astral Spirits)
- Maria Kannegaaard Trio: Sand I En Vik (Jazzland)
- Jon Pål Inderberg Trio: Radio Inderberg (AMP Music & Records)
- Jim Black Trio: Reckon (Intakt)
- Harald Lassen: Human Samling (Jazzland Recordings)
- Fire! Orchestra: Actions (Rune Grammofon)
- Tani Tabbal Trio: Now Then (Tao Forms)
- Alan Braufmann: The Fire Still Burns (Valley of Search)
- Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia)
- Mark Lomax, II & The Urban Art Ensemble: 400 Year Suite (CFG Multimedia)
- Róisín Murphy: Róisín Machine (Skint Records)
- Angel Bat Dawid & The Brothahood: Live (International Anthem)
- Mary Halvorson Code Girl: Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
- Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids: Shaman(Strut)
- Horse Lords: The Common Task (Northen Spy)
- Shopping: All or Nothing (Fatcat Records)
- Steph Richards: Supersense (Northern Spy)
- Cortex: Legal Tender (Clean Feed)
- Wendy Eisienberg: Dehiscence (Wendy Eisienberg)
- Stein Urheim: Downhill Uplift (Hubro)
- Dave Sewelson: More Music For a Free World (self released)
- Susana Santos Silva Impermanence: The Ocean Inside A Stone (Carimbo Porta-Jazz)
- Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs. 10 (Intakt)
- Large Unit Fendika: EthioBraz (PNL)
- Hedvig Mollestad: Ekhidna (Rune Grammofon)
- Coriky: Coriky (Dischord Records)
- McPhee/Rempis/Reid/Lopez/Nilssen-Love: Of Things Beyond Thule volume 1 (Aerophonic)
- Aruán Ortiz with Andrew Cyrille and Mauricio Herrera: Inside Rhythmic Falls (Intakt)
- Elizabeth Cook: Aftermath (Agent Love Records)
- James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor: Live in Willisau (Intakt)
- No Age: Goons Be Gone (Drag City)
- Öm: It's About Time (Intakt)
- Ingebrigt Håker Flate: Til Anna (STR)
- Autechre: SIGN (Warp)
- Heroes Are Gang Leaders: Artificial Happiness Button (Ropeadope)
- Field Music: Making a New World (Memphis Industries)
- No Age: Goons Be Gone (Drag City)
- X: ALPHABETLAND (Fat Possum)
- Erlend Apneseth: Fragmentarium (Hubro)
- Cameron / Carter / Håker Flaten: Tau Ceti (Astral Spirits)
- Moses Sumney: Græ (Jagjaguwar)
- Mats Eilertsen Trio + Trio Mediaevel: Memorabilia (NXN Recordings)
- Inland Empire: Inland Empire (Clean Feed)
- Lithics: Tower of Age (Trouble In Mind)
- Gerald Cleaver & Devin Gray: 27 Licks (Rataplan Records)
- Ceramic Dog: What I Did On My Long 'Vacation' EP (Northern Spy)
- James Carney Sextet: Pure Heart (Sunnyside Records)
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